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When we awaken the power of our hearts and let that guide us through our daily choices and decisions, through our four cornerstones, food, body, emotional well-being, and spiritual growth, we will experience the most incredible

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I am your host, Kimberly Snyder, New York Times best-selling author, founder of Saluna,

creator of the research-based heart-aligned meditation, wellness expert, nutritionist, and international speaker.

I am passionate about supporting you on your unique heart and wellness journey.

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Hi, everyone. Welcome back to our Monday interview show. I am very excited to talk about a

super important topic today, which is stillness. And we hear this word a lot. We hear about

presence, but sometimes we feel that it's difficult,

challenging to obtain in our everyday lives, that maybe we just need to go away for a while or

change our job or wait for the weekend or whatever it is. And I am here with my conversation guest today, Samyo, to say that is not true. You can find it now.

Sam has a new book out called The Monk's Mindset, Finding Stillness in a World that Won't Stop Moving.

He has a very interesting background. He is a trained Buddhist monk. He left then to become a

top Peloton instructor. So he's finding stillness literally in the midst of a high performing,

you know, fitness modality. He was also an actor. And the lessons and the action steps that he

shares in his book are accessible,

and they've been building through his life experience and his formal training for the past

several decades.

So I really enjoy talking to Sam and getting his perspective on this Buddhist perspective

in particular of accessing stillness now.

So before we get into her show, a little reminder as well, the show notes, our central hub

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